Automatic stock-watering fountain.



A N0. 628,||2. Patented .luly 4, |899.1

C. PELMULDER. AUTOMATIC STCK WATERING FOUNTAIN.'

(Application led Mar. 28, 1899,)

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UNITED lSTATES I PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES PELMIILDER, or, GRANT CITY, IowA.l

AUTOMATIC STOCK-WATERING FOUNTAIN.

s'PEcIEIcATIoN forming part ef Lettere Patent Ne. 628,112, dated Juiy4., 1899.

Application nea Meret 2s, 1899.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES PELMULDER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Grant City, in the county of Sac and State of Iowa, haveinvented a new and useful Automatic Valve and Glass Float forStock-Watering Fountains, of which the following is a specification. Y

The object of this invention is to provide improved means for governingthe flow of water from a source of supply into a tank and utilizing aglass bottle of common form as a iioat for actua-ting a valve.

My invention consists in the construction, arrangement, and combinationof elements hereinafter set forth, pointed out in Iny claims, andillustrated by the accompanying drawings, in which g Figure 1 is a sideelevation, partly in section, showing my device applied as required forpractical use. Fig. 2 is a cross-section on the indicated line 2 2 ofFig. 1. Fig. 3 is a detail elevation, partly in section, of a portion ofmy device. Fig. 4 is a detail elevation at right angles to Fig. 3. Fig.5 is an elevation taken from the indicated line 5 5 of Fig. 1. Fig. 6 isa cross-section on the indicated line 6 6 of Fig. 1.

In the construction and operation of the device as shown the numeral 10designates the bottom, 11 one side, 12 13 the ends, and 14 the top, of atank constructed to contain water, as hereinafter set forth. A'plurality of drinking-cups 15, one only of which is shown, are mountedon the end 12 and sides 'of the tank, and ports 16 for the passage ofwater into said cups are provided.

A water-supply pipe 17 is mountedin the end 13 of the tank and leadsfrom a source of supply (not shown) to the interior of said tank. Aclamp 18,made of a single piece of sheet metal and terminating in apertured ears 19 20, is mounted on and around the inner end of thesupply-pipe 17. A hanger 21 is formed of a single piece of wire, with aneye 22 on one end and a hook 23 opposite the eye. The eye portion of thehanger 21 is mounted between the ears 19 2O of the clamp 18 and pivotedupon a pin 24, traversing said ears and riveted or otherwise fixed insuch a manner as to draw the ears toward each other and retain the clampon the supply-pipe. A

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valve-plate 25 is mounted on and soldered or otherwise securely attachedto the central portion of the hanger 21 in alinement with thesupply-pipe 17, and said plate is of greater diameter than thesupply-pipe and arranged to cover the end thereof at times. A gasket 26is mounted on the valve-plate 25 and interposed between said plate andthe inner end of the supply-pipe. A bell-crank lever 27 is constructedof a'single piece Yof wire, with a hook 28 on one end interengaging thehook 23 on the hanger 21 and a loop near the hook 28 and designated bythe numeral 29, Fig. 4. The loop 29 of the bell-crankis pivu otallymounted on a pin 30, horizontally seated in the extremities of anangle-plate 3l, mounted on the bottom 10 of the tank and fixed theretoby a screw 32. The portion of the bell-crank between the hook 2S andloop 29 is approximately vertical, and said bellcrank extends upwardlyand rearwardly from the loop and is bent into a horizontal position atthe rear and in the horizontal plane of the hook and extended rearwardlya vconsiderable distance therefrom. The oat 33 consists of a glassbottle having a neck 34 and a cork stopper 35 in said neck, therebyrendering the float imperforate, impervious to the action of the water,and sufficiently buoyant for the purpose. The iioat 33 is positionedhorizontally in the tank and sustained by the water therein and isconnected to the rear end of the bell-crank by a clamp 36, made of asingle piece of sheet metal and embracing both the neck of the float andthe extremity of the bell-crank, as shown in Fig. 2, in such a mannerthat when the bottle is broken it can be readily removed from the lever27 and a new one attached to the lever by means of the clamp 36.

In the rise and fall of the float under the influence of the water inthe tank the bellcrank is oscillated and the valve-plate 25 approximatedto or separated from the inner end of the supply-pipe, thereby cuttingoff or turning on the supply of water to the tank.

I claim as my invention- 1. In an automatic stock-watering fountain, thelever 27 made of a single piece of .wire provided with a hook 28 at oneend, for

detachably connecting it with a valve and a loop 29 for connecting itwith a pivot, or pin ICO and a clamp at one end for connecting it with abottle, in the manner set forth for the purposes stated.

2. A float constructed of hollow glass and provided with a neck and astopper in said neck, a clamp mounted on the neck of the oat, abell-crank lever rigidly attached to said clamp, a support on which saidbellcrank is fulcrumed, a supply-pipe, a clamp on the terminal of saidsupply-pipe, a hanger pivoted on the latter said clamp and dependingacross the terminal of the supply-pipe, a valve-plate carried by saidhanger in front of said terminal, a gasket on the valve-plate CHARLESPELMULDER.

Witnesses:

JOHN S. RHYNSBURGER, JOHN H. WIERTS.

